Building record 4768/1/1 - Stoke Plain Farmhouse

Stoke Plain Farm, Stoke Bruerne. Model farm built for Duke of Grafton estate c. 1840. Model farms were architect-designed farmsteads inspired by the ideals of Enlightenment that combined utility with architectural beauty.

{1} Farmhouse. C.1840. Limestone ashlar, hipped slate roofs, stone internal stacks. Double-depth plan. 2-storey, 3-window range. Central double-leaf part-glazed doors approached by 3 stone steps, in stone porch with unfluted Doric columns supporting entablature with triglyphs to frieze and deep moulded cornice. 12-pane sash windows with stone lintels and keyblocks. Plinth, storey band and band below deep projecting eaves. Lower symmetrical 2-storey wings attached to rear angles of main block have similar windows, plinth and storey band. That to left houses former wash-house and has blank windows to first floor. Interior not inspected. With farm buildings (q.v.) one of a number of model farms built for the 4th Duke of Grafton 1839-44. (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire: 1973, p417; Grafton papers deposited in Northants Record Office; J. Steene, The Northamptonshire Landscape 1974, pp240-1)

{3} Stoke Plain farmhouse - erected as part of a model farm for Grafton Estate in 1840. The east wing was last used as a dairy and the list description indicates it was formerly a wash house. The building is currently open to roof, although there are a series of joists indicating that there may have been an additional floor at an earlier stage. There is plaster on the walls and white tiles from the se of the wind as a dairy. There is an entrance at ground floor level through to the main body of the house, but there is no access at first floor level. It is uncertain whether the wind has always been used as an outbuilding of some kindor whether it was formerly the main body of domestic accommodation.
The owners reports that the west wing appears to have been a kitchen and scullery (with drainage in the stone floors) with servants quarters at first floor level.

{6] Undated photo, also photo dated 13.01.1994;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 4/153 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), F10 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN45262.

<3> Ballinger J., 2000, East Wing, Stoke Plain Farmhouse, Stoke Bruerne, (unchecked) (Report). SNN100450.

<4> Bates P., 2000, Proposed alterations to Stokegap House (survey drawing), (unchecked) (Plan). SNN100451.

<5> Ballinger J., 2000, Slides, (unchecked) (Slides). SNN100452.

<6> Photographs of buildings in Stoke Bruerne (Photographs). SNN113273.

<7> The Conservation Studio, 2008, Stoke Bruerne Conservation Plan (Policy Document). SNN116087.

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